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Re: Theo Wanne Enlightened Clarinet Ligature

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2022-09-24 06:58

With many ligatures that have more esoteric designs you'll find that "less grip" is usually a part of that. Over tightening kills the vibrancy of the system any way so you want to keep things a little looser no matter what ligature you use. Again guys, if you don't believe it, play for a few minutes the way you always do, then just loosen your ligature a turn or two and see what that does to the sound. No kidding, you WILL hear a difference.

As for the Enlightened ligature, I take off the mouthpiece using a grip only consisting of my thumb and index finger close to the tip. As a right handed person I also grab with the keys and tone holes facing me. That way, the force while I twist the mouthpiece clockwise is on the "closing of the reed upon the mouthpiece" direction and avoids accidental chipping of the reed's corner. Of course you can always swab by taking off the mouthpiece with the barrel and avoid any issues of loose ligatures completely

............Paul Aviles

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